[mythtv-users] Pointers for MythTV frontend on Koolu?

[Brian Wood]

Ted Roche wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2008 3:45 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> 
>> Obviously a PVR can't create MPEG4.
> 
> Not to me. I should have explained that I'm a video noob and just set
> up the backend by following Jarod Wilson's Fedora HOWTO and stopping
> when it worked. MPEG is just a bunch of capital letters to me.

Motion Picture Expert's Group, in case you were wondering.

> 
>> you'd have to transcode, or use a framegrabber and encode with your main
>> CPU.
> 
> Well, the backend pretty much sits around doing nothing, so this might
> warm up that corner of the basement.
> 
>> I'm not sure if Myth (or Linux in general) can take advantage of that
>> H/W MPEG decoder, and if it can I don't know if it can deal with MPEG4.
> 
> I just have the rather terse clue on the koolu.org site that Steve
> pointed out. I'll give it a try and see what happens!
> 

Actually if top is showing you 95% CPU usage I'd guess that is your 
problem. MPEG4 decoding takes much more CPU than MPEG2, assuming no 
hardware help.

beww